Summer is aImost hitting the southern hemisphere and as every year I am still surprised and hopelessly unprepared. BUT! I am very excited to annouce that it’s about time to join the Indie Design Gift-A-Long on Ravelry! From the 22th of November it’s ON! I’m very proud to be a participating designer again this year, for the seventh year in a row! My gift to you is a 25% discount on these patterns when you use the coupon code “giftalong2022”…
While testing for my new pattern Kiwi as! Summer Socks (coming soon!) I was looking for a better way to do Fair Isle in the round when you have to carry the contrasting yarn around a larger area without knitting it. I came across the Ladderback Jacquard method, which is so brilliantly easy that it is just perfect for me. I was always intimidated by colourwork. Whenever I tried to knit it in the round it was just not very…
Just browsing through the list of participating designers this year makes my fingers itch and my head spin. There are so many new finds and such an inspirational lot of beautiful designs that I barely know where to start! The Indie Design Gift-a-long is already in full swing and I wanted to give you a glimpse of what it looks like. My to-do-list grows by the second…. Here are some of my favourite finds this year: Rebecca Newman is high…
Every year I am looking forward to having a good excuse for checking out new (to me) designers and their beautiful and inspiring work. And every year anew I am so amazed by the creativity and stunning designs that people put on display. This year I stumbled across Amy Van den Laar’s beautiful designs. What cought my eye first was the intricate pattern on her Jaye Mitts and the gorgeous colour (I admit I’m a sucker for blue!). Aren’t they…
Two months of lockdown are over. And so is summer. At least in this part of the world. I managed to use the time to enjoy my family to the fullest, to craft and to play with the boys and to go to the local beach almost every single day. It could have been a lot worse, all things considered, but I’m so happy that lockdown is over and the little monsters can see their friends again and learn new…
Long have I carried the idea for these happy scrappy knits around in my head until FINALLY, after 5 months of waiting, I was reunited with my beloved stash after the move around the globe. The possibilities were endless, it was the hardest thing to choose which scraps from my treasure chest to use up first. Nothing seemed to be in my way! May they live scrappily ever after! And then Covid-19 happened. It took an awful long time just…
New year, new country, new plans! I’m usually not big on new year’s resolutions, but I’m always planning something. And since 2020 starts off on a new continent for me, I’m looking forward to many new projects this year! So in between my own creations, which have been queueing in my brain for too long already, I’ll also try and work off my Ravelry pattern queue as much as I can. You will find in this post a list of…
WAH!! Only five-ish weeks to Christmas?!? Are you as surprised and hopelessly unprepared as I am (like… every year anew)?? This year it’s actually worse since we’ll be celebrating Christmas in summer! How weird for someone used to snotty noses and slush for the holiday season. All the more reason to kick up your knitting a notch and join our huge Indie Design Gift-A-Long on Ravelry! From today, the 26th of November it’s ON! Get ready now and fire up your…
After a few days of holidays in the deep south (read Netherlands and Belgium), where the only thing I knitted was a single pair of socks (and I didn’t even finish that until I got back home) it’s now time to dig deep into my stash and knit bigger. Travel Turtle and I had a great time visiting spring down south first in the tulip country of the Netherlands where we unabashedly played tourist and enjoyed some amazing weather, flowers,…
Start the drumroll for the grand finale! It’s about time. You have seen three wonderful sets of cabled socks and mittens and maybe even learned a little about some figures from Norse Mythology: Jormungandr, the world snake. Oden, highest and wisest of Norse Gods and Frigg, his beautiful wife. Now I would like to introduce you to Heimdallr, guardian of the burning rainbow bridge called Bifrost, which links Midgard, our world, to the seat of the Gods in Asgard. Heimdallr…